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Why Does Keira Knightley Always Look So Sad?
Posted by Molly Friedman at 8:35 AM on May 6, 2008
Most stars have their own trademark pose on the red carpet. Think Renee Zellweger with her pursed lips looking like she just took a shot of lemon juice, or Lindsay Lohan's classic blowing kiss move. As for Keira Knightley, with her wildly perfect facial features and oddly appealing underbite, she's patented "The Pout." As she puts it:
"I was pouty when I was 16 or 17 and it's sort of stuck...It's when I'm nervous and my neck gets really really tense and then that pressure sort of squeezes up to my lips and they push out and there you go, that's the pout."Though, if nerves are to blame for Keira's moody look on red carpets, why pout her way through movie roles as well? We examine the Knightley Pout from both past and present, on and off-screen, after the jump.
On nearly every red carpet, Keira refuses to reveal a single chomper, instead opting for the "pushed out lip" look she blames on nerves and tension. Understandably, flashbulbs and shouting fans would make us nervous, but after four years of major fame, wouldn't waltzing down the red carpet be a lesson learned way back in Fame 101?
And yes, her pout reappears in role after role. In each of the three Pirates flicks, that frown never leaves her face. And sure, fighting dead pirates and keeping your cool while filming scenes with the impossibly dreamy Johnny Depp would make us nervous too, but surely she could mix in the occasional smile. Can't her agent find her a good old-fashioned, Love, Actually type rom-com next? Or, at the very least, slip her a Valium or two before her upcoming red carpet appearances?
[Photo credits: Getty, IMDB, Wireimage]
- KEIRA KNIGHTLEY BLAMES NERVES FOR HER POUT [Starpulse]
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kookla
Posted 10:56 AM 6/5/08
Because with a jaw that wonky, she must suffer from some wicked TMJ.
kookla
iAlreadyHateYou
Posted 10:51 AM 6/5/08
Duh! It's because she's hungry. She needs a hamburger and a chocolate milkshake.
iAlreadyHateYou
heidiho
Posted 10:48 AM 6/5/08
Dude, I'd be sad too if I hadn't eaten since Bend It Like Beckham.
heidiho
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 10:45 AM 6/5/08
she should be smiling all the time with the way she tricks hollywood execs into thinking she can actually act
bess marvin, girl detective
CakeAndDeath
Posted 12:22 PM 6/5/08
Cos she desperately wants some of this brown sugar up in that *cough* :]
CakeAndDeath
NeonSkye
Posted 1:01 PM 6/5/08
She pouts because if she smiles she looks like this.
Very ordinary.
NeonSkye
NeonSkye
Posted 1:23 PM 6/5/08
Ooops...or rather she looks like this-
NeonSkye
CourageousCoward
Posted 3:17 PM 6/5/08
"...why pout her way through movie roles as well?"
A. She's British and we know what THEIR teeth are like?
B. That's the extent of her "range?"
C. Annie Liebovitz told her to?
D. She's a mouth-breather, Jerry?
CourageousCoward
pixie-stix
Posted 3:01 PM 6/5/08
The pout annoys but her smile is freakish and clown-like. I can't take it.
pixie-stix
BluntObjects
Posted 12:28 AM 7/5/08
Somebody give the bitch a sammich!
BluntObjects
smartyr
Posted 1:13 AM 7/5/08
It's a collagen-flaunting pose. Is this so difficult to figure out? She spent a lot of money on that upper lip.
smartyr
bittergreen
Posted 2:20 AM 7/5/08
Reminds me of Sascha Grey's disinterested half-smile.
bittergreen
Seanibus
Posted 2:45 AM 7/5/08
She is worried that if she smiles, someone might slip a cracker - or some similar thin food product - into her mouth.
Or perhaps she and Jessica Alba have decided to share one smile and it got lost in the mail somewhere as they were exchanging it.
Seanibus
InkStainedWretch
Posted 3:25 AM 7/5/08
@CourageousCoward: It's so answer A. Even if she has gotten caps to rid the world of her congenitally wonky Limey teeth, the psychic scars remain.
InkStainedWretch
JulieJewel
Posted 4:39 AM 7/5/08
First of all, she shouldn't smile, because she looks like she was kicked in the mouth by a horse. Get those teeth Fixed!
Also, her 'pouty phase' she mentions that happened around when she was 17, coincided wit her getting collagen injections in her lips. Look at her in Bend it like Beckham...she's MUCH fuller in the lips.
JulieJewel
KateNonymous
Posted 4:35 AM 7/5/08
I don't think of it as a pout so much as a borderline sneer. Far too often her mouth is agape and her lip is curled, as if she can't decide between going for the actual sneer, or if that's too much work and she just wants to look like she's aghast.
KateNonymous
HanleyImbible
Posted 1:35 AM 7/5/08
Comment on Why Does Keira Knightley Always Look So Sad? Have you seen her teeth? They look like Posh's, another one who does nothing but pout...
HanleyImbible
Decebal
Posted 5:02 AM 7/5/08
Smiling can eat up the little calories that does enter her system.
CONSERVATION of energy and calories is her number one priority.
Decebal
spanktastic
Posted 8:07 AM 7/5/08
Just a dollar a day could help feed this poor girl. Please support Keira at
america.wantsto.feed.keira.org
spanktastic
Crinkelbert_Fishtybuns
Posted 8:30 AM 7/5/08
She doesn't smile because she has one of those smiles that make her look like a different person. Her face gets about three times wider and her eyes become upside-down u's. She looks like something out of anime. She smiles a lot in Pride and prejudice and I'm a huge Austen buff, so I've seen Keira's and all the others many times.
Crinkelbert_Fishtybuns
miniminx
Posted 6:26 AM 8/5/08
We can't all be Angelina, honey. Stop trying so hard!
miniminx